Dieter Dorn

Dieter Dorn ( born October 31, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German actor, director and theater manager.

Biography

Dorn attended after high school, the theater school of his home town, left the GDR in 1956 and moved to the Max Reinhardt School of Acting in West Berlin, where he finished his education at Hilde Körber and Lucie Polite. 1958-1961 he was engaged as an assistant director, playwright and actor at the Staatstheater Hannover, then he worked as a reporter and announcer for NDR. In 1964 he returned to Hanover, where he was engaged as Principal game manager and dramaturg at the State Theatre. 1968-1970 he staged in Essen, 1971-1975 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, but also resulted in Oberhausen, Basel, Vienna (Burgtheater ) and at the State Drama Theatres in Berlin Director. 1976 Thorn moved to the chamber Games Munich, where he initially the senior play line and 1983 as the successor of Hans -Reinhard Müller took over the directorship. Other tasks: Founding Rector of the Stuttgart Theatre Academy in 1988 and interim senior director of the Munich Theatre of Youth 1990.

After Dorn had the reputation of the Munich Studio Theater consolidated as a leading drama stage significantly, his contract was not renewed in 2001 however, but transfer the directorship Frank Baum Bauer. Mandrel was then director of the Bavarian State Theatre and in this capacity also a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His successor in this office since 2011 Martin Kušej.

Productions at the Bavarian State Theatre

• The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare ( translation Michael Wachsmann ), Premiere October 11, 2001 Residence Theater
• Appearances are deceptive, Thomas Bernhard, A production of the Munich Studio Theater. Newly staged for the Bavarian State Theatre. As of October 20, 2001, the Residenz Theater
• Hecuba, Euripides ( translation Michael Wachsmann ), A production of the Munich Studio Theater. Revival for the Bavarian State Theatre. As of 24 October 2001 Residence Theater
• Amphitryon, Heinrich von Kleist, A production of the Munich Studio Theater. Revival for the Bavarian State Theatre. From 26 October 2001 Residence Theater
• The day room, Don DeLillo, Premiere December 8, 2001 Theatre in the House of Art
• The fool and his wife this evening in Pancomedia, Botho Strauss, Premiere April 24, 2002, the Residenz Theater
• The walls, Jean Genet, Premiere May 28, 2003, the Residenz Theater
• Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare ( translation Michael Wachsmann ), Premiere 27 May 2004 Residence Theater
• The one and the other, Botho Strauss, world premiere January 27, 2005, the Residenz Theater
• The Bacchae, Euripides ( translation Michael Wachsmann ), Premiere October 11, 2005, the Residenz Theater
• Flea in Her Ear, Georges Feydeau, Premiere October 21, 2006, the Residenz Theater
• Androcles and the Lion, George Bernard Shaw, Premiere December 19, 2006, the Residenz Theater
• God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza, Premiere January 26, 2008, the Residenz Theater
• Idomeneus, Roland Schimmelpfennig, premiere June 15, 2008, the Residenz Theater
• Cathy of Heilbronn, Heinrich von Kleist, Premiere February 12, 2011, the Residenz Theater

Opera productions

Dorn was - in many cases, together with the set and costume designer Jürgen Rose - also responsible for opera productions. As an opera director, he made ​​his debut on 15 June 1979 at the Vienna State Opera with The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( conductor Karl Böhm ). Likewise, in 1979, he taught the Salzburg Festival Ariadne out on Naxos by Richard Strauss (Conductor Böhm ) and in 2003 the premiere of L' Upupa and the triumph of filial love by Hans Werner Henze (Conductor Markus Stenz ) and 2010 Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Conductor Riccardo Muti ).

1981 Dorn staged the world premiere of people dream of Peter Michael Hamel at the Staatstheater Kassel. In addition, Dorn worked in the Ludwigsburg Festival ( Così fan tutte, conductor Wolfgang Gönnenwein, 1984, Le nozze di Figaro, conductor Gönnenwein, 1987), the Bayreuth Festival ( The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner, 1990), Elektra by Richard Strauss ( Conductor: Daniel Barenboim ) at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden; at the Bavarian State Opera ( Wozzeck by Alban Berg, 1982, Così fan tutte, in 1993, and Le nozze di Figaro, 1997) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York ( Tristan and Isolde, conductor James Levine, 1999). 2008, the resumption of Tristan und Isolde at the Met.

On June 14, 2008 took place the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich with a ceremony of the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In the evening, the first performance of Idomeneo Dieter Dorn 's production followed. On June 18, 2008 was then the official premiere (Conductor: Kent Nagano, Stage and Costumes Jürgen Rose, among others, Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, John Mark Ainsley, Simon Pauly and Rainer Trost). In March 2013 began with Rheingold Dieter Dorn 's production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Opera House in Geneva.

Attending festivals and Theatre Meeting ( selection)

Filmography (selection)

Direction

• The one and the other ( 2004)
• Cymbeline (2000)
• Amphitryon (1999)
• Prinz Friedrich von Homburg ( 1997)
• King Lear (1992 )
• The Broken Jug (1990 )
• Faust - From heaven through the world to hell (1988 )
• L' Upupa and the triumph of filial love (2003, as a director of opera production )
• The Merchant of Venice ( 2004)

Actor

• New Freedom - no jobs (1998)
• The Transformation of the World in Music (1994, as himself)

Awards and honors

Dorn received in 1972, the Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna and the German Critics' Prize. He was elected to the Munich Artist of the Year in 1976 and was awarded the Cultural Prize of Honour City of Munich 1993. Since 2001 he is member of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. In 2008 he received ( in the re- opening of the Munich Cuvilliés Theatre ) by Thomas Langhoff (Director of Performing Arts section of the Berlin Academy of Arts ), the snuffbox " Pandora's Box " from the estate of Boleslaw Barlog. In 2009 he received the Bavarian Constitution Medal in Gold, 2011, the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Offices and Memberships

Dorn is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1979. Since 1986 he has been the Department of Performing Arts with the latter director.

Works

• Autobiography: Play on! My life for the theater, CH Beck, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64500-6.